Simple, important & cool resources for

(Ubuntu)

To Do

[ ] Replace Ananicy with auto-cpufreq
[ ] Add Waydroid
[ ] Add EasyEffects for PipeWire's audio server only
[ ] Add QEMU
[ ] Add Nala package manager

Kernels & Drivers 🔧
- XanMod
- Liquorix
Better Audio 🔊
- Equalizer
- Audio Tweaks
- Troubleshoot
Longer Battery Life 🔋
- Install TLP package
- Disable Bluetooth
- Turn Off Firewall Logs
- Disable Gome features
Optimize RAM&SSD 🚀
- Decrease swap
- Set VFS cache pressure
- Disable write access
- Prevent out of memory
Better CPU Managment 💻
Touchpad Gestures 🖱️
Customization 🎨
Software 📥
Retro Gaming 🎮
- Install RetroPi
- Install Themes
- Install Shaders
- The Bezel Project
Terminal 🔳
- Cool Bash
- Pimp out Neofetch
- Oh-My-fish
- GitHub search
Linux Resources 📚

🔧CUSTOM KERNELS & DRIVERS🔧

[!NOTE] Depending on the type of hardware you have, one might work better than the other. But in my opinion XanMod good for gaming and Liquorix for heavy tasks like video editing, vscode etc.

XanMod

echo 'deb http://deb.xanmod.org releases main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xanmod-kernel.list
wget -qO - https://dl.xanmod.org/gpg.key | sudo apt-key --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/xanmod-kernel.gpg add -
sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-xanmod

🔊BOOST AUDIO🔊

Equalizer

Pulse Effects (will make soft speakers alot louder)

sudo apt-get install pulseeffects lsp-plugins

Presets

pulse-presets

Audio Tweaks

Check out this guide

Troubleshoot

If there is any issue with your audio like lag or in my case louder volume feature was not working, From linux-mint forums :

killall pulseaudio
sudo killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libpulse-browse0 paman pavumeter pavucontrol
sudo mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf-bak
rm ~/.pulse-cookie
rm -r ~/.pulse
sudo apt-get install libalsaplayer0

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🔋BETTER BATTERY🔋

Install TLP package

Open synaptic package manager
Search for tlp package
Right click package, select mark for installation and mark
Click apply

Disable Bluetooth

sudo systemctl disable bluetooth.service    
## To re-enable
sudo systemctl enable bluetooth.service

Turn Off Firewall Logs

sudo ufw logging off 
## To re-enable
sudo ufw logging low

Disable Gome features

Disabling Vsync&Windows Compositing (found in general)

Disable Startup Apps

Disable All Effects & Animations

Disable Automatic Screen Rotation (found in display settings)

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🚀OPTIMIZE RAM&SSD🚀

Decrease swap

Only if using 8gb ram or more for less disk writes and more use of memory

Open:

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

Add at end of file :

vm.swappiness = 10

This means when 10% of ram is only available, swap will activate

Set VFS cache pressure

VFS cache pressure pushes the kernel to return memory being used for caching to the main pool of free memory

Open:

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf

Add at end of sysctl.conf file:

vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

Disables write access

Noatime mount option fully disables writing file access times to SSD every time you read a file, this reduces the writes to SSD therefore greatly increasing lifespan of SSD’s

sudo nano /etc/fstab

Prevent out of memory

[!CAUTION] This tool is outdated and has not been updated for a while. If have issues try earlyoom or oomd

Install Nohang:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/test
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nohang
sudo systemctl enable --now nohang-desktop.service

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💻BETTER CPU💻

[!WARNING] This tool is outdated and has not been updated for a while. Please use auto-cpufreq. Have not have time to use it and write quick tutorial.

Manage processes IO and CPU priorities with Ananicy

git clone https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy.git /tmp/ananicy
cd /tmp/ananicy
sudo make install
sudo systemctl enable ananicy
sudo systemctl start ananicy

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🖱️TOUCHPAD GESTURES🖱️

Install Touchegg

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:touchegg/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install touchegg
sudo systemctl enable touchegg.service
sudo systemctl start touchegg
mkdir -p ~/.config/touchegg && cp -n /usr/share/touchegg/touchegg.conf ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf

Install Touché application in software manager to configure gestures

Do it maunally from config file

sudo nano ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf

Here is my configuration for reference

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🎨CUSTOMIZATION🎨

𝔼𝕐𝔼 ℂ𝔸ℕ𝔻𝕐

All themes example here are from Pling website.

Rainbow cursor

Extract zip files to /usr/share/icons/

Sweet dark ui theme

Extract zip files to /usr/share/themes/

Beautyline icon theme

Extract zip files to /usr/share/icons/

Applets

Dock

Install plank dock from software manager

Cyberpunk plank theme

Extract zip files to /usr/share/plank/themes/

Boot Logo

Plymouth Themes

Copy theme folder to /usr/share/plymouth/themes/

Install the new theme (cybernetic in this case)

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/share/plymouth/themes/default.plymouth default.plymouth /usr/share/plymouth/themes/cybernetic/cybernetic.plymouth 100
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
sudo update-initramfs -u

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📥SOFTWARES📥

Java (Running Programs)

VERSION 17

wget https://download.oracle.com/java/17/latest/jdk-17_linux-x64_bin.deb
chmod +x jdk-17_linux-x64_bin.deb
sudo dpkg -i jdk-17_linux-x64_bin.deb

VERSION 21

wget https://download.oracle.com/java/21/latest/jdk-21_linux-x64_bin.deb
chmod +x jdk-21_linux-x64_bin.deb
sudo dpkg -i jdk-21_linux-x64_bin.deb

Wine (Install Windows Softwares)

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo apt-key add winehq.key
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main' 
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Anbox Cloud (Android Emulator)

Install using Snap Store

sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install anbox-cloud-appliance --classic

Open https://your-machine-address/applications in your browser. By default, the Anbox Cloud Appliance uses self-signed certificates, which might cause a security warning in your browser. Use the mechanism provided by your browser to proceed to the web page.
Click Add Application.
Enter a name for the application, for example, virtual-device-web.
Keep the preselected resource type.
Select the Android image that you want to use, for example, jammy:android13:arm64.
Do not upload an APK file.
Click Add Application. You are redirected to the application view. Wait until the application status changes to ready.

Lutris (Game Library Manager)

Demo

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lutris-team/lutris
sudo apt update
sudo apt install lutris

Mailspring (Mail Client)

sudo snap install mailspring
	
## Or manually
wget https://updates.getmailspring.com/download?platform=linuxDeb
sudo chmod +x name_of_file.deb
sudo dpkg -i /path/to/deb/file

Raven Reader (Rss News)

sudo snap install raven-reader

qBittorrent (Torrenting Client)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install qbittorrent

Hardinfo (System Information)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/hardinfo
sudo apt update
sudo apt install hardinfo

Bleachbit (Clean System)

sudo apt install bleachbit

Stacer (System Optimizer & Monitoring)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oguzhaninan/stacer -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install stacer -y

Haruna (Video player & Youtube-dl)

flatpak install flathub org.kde.haruna

Shutter (Screenshot tool)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shutter/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install shutter

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🎮Retro Gaming🎮

Install RetroPi

▶Video tutorial

sudo apt install -y git dialog unzip xmlstarlet
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup.git
cd RetroPie-Setup
sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

Install Themes

▶Video tutorial

Install more themes from RetroHursty69

▶Video tutorial

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RetroHursty69/HurstyThemes/master/install.sh
chmod +x "install.sh"
./install.sh

## Restart Emulation Station and you should then see the new script in the RetroPie menu.

Install Shaders

▶Video tutorial

Get more shaders from glsl-shaders, Extract zip to ~/.config/retroarch/shaders folder.

The Bezel Project

index

▶Video tutorial

cd /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thebezelproject/BezelProject/master/bezelproject.sh
chmod +x "bezelproject.sh"
	
## Restart Emulation Station and you should then see the new script in the RetroPie menu.

[!TIP] For FREE rom packs & bios files, go to Arcade Punks and download a Raspberry Pi custom build image using torrents. Then you can mount image file in linux and view contents. Search for roms&bios folders/files and extract them to retropi directories on your Linux system.

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🔳TERMINAL🔳

Cool Bash

Customize your terminal like a boss

COWSAY(can be used with fortune)

sudo apt-get install cowsay

LOLCAT

sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo gem install lolcat

TOILET

sudo apt install toilet

FIGLET

sudo apt install figlet

Information needed for customizing bash :

Everything is added and edited at the end of bashrc file :

sudo nano /.bashrc

Here is an example for reference

Pimp out Neofetch (can be added to bashrc)

Open neofetch config file to edit :

sudo nano ~/.config/neofetch/config.conf

To add custom ASCII art work, you need to create a txt file (with the art) in your home directory and add file path to neofetch config file

Here is an example for reference

Use Oh-My-Fish

Instead of linux bash you can use fish shell which has cool features like my favourite auto predictions preview

Fish is a Unix shell with a focus on interactivity and usability. Oh My Fish provides core infrastructure to allow you to install packages which extend or modify the look of your shell. It's fast, extensible and easy to use

Install fish :

sudo apt install fish

Install oh-my-fish :

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/master/bin/install | fish

Set fish to default shell :

fish --login
## REVERT
bash --login

Install themes

Customize current fish theme colors :

fish_config

For startup greetings go to .config/fish/functions and create a file fish_greeting.fish

gh-s - Search GitHub repositories interactively from the command line

Install :

curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gh

gh auth login

Install extension :

gh extension install gennaro-tedesco/gh-s

Get Started :

gh s

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📚LINUX RESOURSES📚

Endless linux stuff

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Simple, important & cool resources for

(Ubuntu)

Contents

🔧CUSTOM KERNELS & DRIVERS🔧

🔊BOOST AUDIO🔊

Equalizer

Audio Tweaks

Troubleshoot

🔋BETTER BATTERY🔋

Install TLP package

Disable Bluetooth

Turn Off Firewall Logs

Disable Gome features

🚀OPTIMIZE RAM&SSD🚀

Decrease swap

Set VFS cache pressure

Disables write access

Prevent out of memory

💻BETTER CPU💻

Manage processes IO and CPU priorities with Ananicy

🖱️TOUCHPAD GESTURES🖱️

Install Touchegg

🎨CUSTOMIZATION🎨

𝔼𝕐𝔼 ℂ𝔸ℕ𝔻𝕐

All themes example here are from Pling website.

Applets

Dock

Boot Logo

Install the new theme (cybernetic in this case)

📥SOFTWARES📥

Java (Running Programs)

Wine (Install Windows Softwares)

Anbox Cloud (Android Emulator)

Install using Snap Store

Lutris (Game Library Manager)

Mailspring (Mail Client)

Raven Reader (Rss News)

qBittorrent (Torrenting Client)

Hardinfo (System Information)

Bleachbit (Clean System)

Stacer (System Optimizer & Monitoring)

Haruna (Video player & Youtube-dl)

Shutter (Screenshot tool)

🎮Retro Gaming🎮

Install RetroPi

Install Themes

Install more themes from RetroHursty69

Install Shaders

The Bezel Project

🔳TERMINAL🔳

Cool Bash

Pimp out Neofetch (can be added to bashrc)

Use Oh-My-Fish

gh-s - Search GitHub repositories interactively from the command line

📚LINUX RESOURSES📚

Endless linux stuff

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